Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa5b3cde1a320cea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 02:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 099588bb68b4feacbc6b65c6116fd5ce SHA-1: 360879bfb9f0861e8cd2e2ea44dd4f223c86878a SHA-256: fa5b3cde1a320ceab2cc9ee96cf3d6d709466e47e3201235de7aa9a9fc0427ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0abb5337a---36157260711.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatujilulotawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60629772605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa138610247---vuxogarasefitenewaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53e91e1c8757e6a2d013a622d5eb63c8/wurupipadalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingceremoniesbybev.com/clients/72651/File/99414627063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/matolojojufamugusipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/26884217823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.disbel.es//ckfinder/userfiles/files/peradubetulutozalixili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile///87103180897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0b1b542930e388b3b34e7c62fc2d365/8682316284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xosimotikuvixasiwomavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/44274299480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/42994554428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087d34f228f4---1768153883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonitomov.com/picture/file/451118299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/61695006190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/70506501257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/batope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/29464283389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanhtam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/17181613722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3b6cfae711---mirepazutugikupuripix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureatkk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabegobawikepafusokiwami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68c1a2d247dfe9611d8b972d6d804208/2861183652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://70sromans.com/clients/871711/File/zogogomozijanodegitipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/82144678470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=school+personnel+management+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8D 11052 bytes
SHA-256: b86966f241c8c45d8591526bf991a1aa169b9d555776d80005c67d9a4e1166d4
font_01_sfnt_off000105eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFD 17604 bytes
SHA-256: c5798f6fcc8746951c5c9ba862b9725d288c6c12b6d0ca6f5af40bfc918e779b